Condoleezza Rice

Statesman

1954-11-14

Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

• Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

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• Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

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• I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

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• I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

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• My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

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• Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

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• We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

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• We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

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• It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

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• Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

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• I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

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• Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

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• Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

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• I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.

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• We need a common enemy to unite us.

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• The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

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• We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable.

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• That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

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• Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

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• So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

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